Most worthwhile careers require some
kind of specialized training. Ideally, therefore, the choice of an (1)
should be made even before choice of a curriculum in high school.
Actually, (2) , most people make several job choices during
their working lives, (3) because of economic and industrial
changes and partly to improve their position. The "one perfect job" does not
(4) . Young people should (5)
enters into a broad flexible training program that will (6)
them for a field of work rather than for a single (7)
. Unfortunately many young people have to make career
plans (8) benefit of help from a(n) (9)
vocational counselor or psychologist. Knowing (10) about the
occupational world, or themselves for that matter, they choose their lifework on
a hit-or-miss basis. Some (11) from job to job. Others
(12) to work in which they are unhappy and for which they
are not fitted. One common mistake is choosing an occupation for
(13) real or imagined prestige. Too many high school
students--or their parents for them--choose the professional field,
(14) both the relatively small proportion of workers in the
professions and the extremely high educational and personal (15)
.The imagined or real prestige of a profession or a white-collar job
is no good (16) for choosing it as life’s work.
(17) , these occupations are not always well paid, since a
large (18) of jobs are in mechanical and manual work, the
(19) of young people should give serious (20)
to these fields. |